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Scientific Name
Hymenophyllum cupressiforme
Family Name
HYMENOPHYLLACEAE
Common Name
Common filmy-fern
Status
Height
0.04m - 0.09m (4-9cm) long
Flowers
None
Fruit
Spores
Form
Fern ; rootstock, creeping, thread-like, much-branched , fronds; bipinnate,dark green, crowded, indusium; tubular.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland; Fern Gullies; Rainforest; Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes
Widespread and abundant in rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest, fern gullies and in sheltered sites within dry sclerophyll forest, from sea - level to subalpine shrubberies. Common on outermost limbs of tall rainforest trees and in seasonally dry sites or upper slopes of gullies where fronds may shrivel during dry periods.
Site Tolerance
Moist; Shady
Frost Tolerance
Soil Tolerance
Fertile; Loam; Well-drained; Limbs of tall rainforest trees
General Notes
Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
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Sowing Months
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Cutting Months
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Unripe sori are generally light green then change to yellowish brown and to dark brown or black when mature.collect mature fronds on folded paper and keep in warm dry place until spores are shed
Seed Treatment Method
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
No
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Yes
Cutting Notes
Propagate by division. it adapts readily to cultivation and can be grown in a pot of fibrous mix with the base standing in water. Also suitable for bottle, terrarium or aquarium culture.
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